Are the ⻌ and ⻍ variants of radical #162 (辵) nowadays regarded as interchangeable?

To put the question in more practical term, is there any practically likely situation where the distinction between them matters? (I can think of only two possible situations: first, a "minimal" pair of two distinct kanji that differ only in that one uses ⻌ and the other one uses ⻍, which seems highly unlikely; second, and more likely, the case of personal names, for which people can get touchy when a detail like this is overlooked.)

For example, there are few characters that are printed with ⻌ in the RTK books (at least in the editions I have), but are printed with ⻍ in many other sources.

Most annoyingly, depending on the font, the character will be use one or the other radical. To see what I mean, visit the page for "crossing"

http://kanji.koohii.com/study/kanji/279

There you will see 辻 printed with ⻌, but if you copy that very character and paste it, say, in the field for a RevTK post, like I just did at the beginning of the sentence, the pasted character now has a ⻍ instead. What gives?

This suggests to me that the distinction between ⻌ and ⻍ no longer matters. Is this correct?

As far as I know, the distinction has never mattered -- it's purely a difference of font and writing style.

Thanks!